Italy Vs United States Sat 6/16/06

I guarantee victory for the United States tomorrow and the USA will advance in the "random" Group E....

This is perhaps the biggest game in USA Men's Soccer World Cup history....we need to win this game, otherwise it sets the American soccer program back a ways for awhile...

USA needs to show some patience early...set some plays up and stop going for the long plays (I do not claim to be a soccer expert by any means, I hope I made any sense with that last statement of mine!)

USA!!! USA!!!

Edited by LOTCB, 16 June 2006 - 01:16 PM.

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USA gets the added power of my positive watching abilities tomorrow and that can only help.

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oook... coz I like you all... I will root for US (expect the unexpected)(aaaand it's REALLY unexpected tonight... )

I wonder who Dad is going to root for. He watched most of his soccer when he was living in Italy and he still reads the Italian papers to follow it. Maybe he'll just be happy whoever wins (and if the US wins, maybe I'll get a call from Mom that he had a heart attack from the shock).

Make-up call??? Make-up for what?! The Italian red card was deserved, hell McBride bled profusely and had to be taken off for a few minutes. The US red card was disgusting. Yellow yes but definitely not red. Franz Beckenbauer is right, the refs are handing out cards the way doctors hand out pieces of lollipop to kids.

This has been a really physical game though, guess the US player's allusion to war wasn't too far off I can't complain about anything the US did in the first half except can we cut it with the stupid offside trap PLEASE? That's all a world-class team needs, an easy goal Hell Costa Rica scored twice on Germany because of the lame offside trap.

Oh and I don't want to hear about playing for a tie either, a tie isn't going to do anything with the US's terrible goal differential, they need a win. And not only that but a win would put the US in control of its own destiny against Ghana anyway.

Edited by Hasan4978, 17 June 2006 - 02:59 PM.

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Make-up call??? Make-up for what?! The Italian red card was deserved, hell McBride bled profusely and had to be taken off for a few minutes. The US red card was disgusting. Yellow yes but definitely not red.

They handed out a red card because they remembered..wait we are supposed to be anti-usa now...quick, make the yellow card a red.

Di$gu$ting.

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Tim Murray (Buffalo Sabres GM) Quotes: 'It's Easy To Spend Money' "I’ve said at the start that if you don’t want to be here we’ll make it happen'

“We’re more competitive. We’ve got a lot of character now. We have leadership now. That’s important to me when you’re adding young players every year"

I wouldn't have had any issue with Pope getting the red (off of two yellows) if it didn't come two freaking minutes after halftime and two minutes after sending off another US player. It's as if the officials were saying 'fvck you for your dissent' after Arena justifiably bitched about the first one After all, how dare we play physical against Italy!

People that complain about NHL officiating calling every little thing, this World Cup has been ten times worse. Not just this game though this game's become the nadir for soccer's new standard of throwing people in figurative jail for legal tackles.

Edited by Hasan4978, 17 June 2006 - 03:15 PM.

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"The Devils have high standards, that's the difference. We have a standard to live up to every year, and a couple of teams in our area don't have the standards we do." - Pat Burns

The New Jersey Devils win Stanley Cups everywhere:-NHL record for most road wins in the playoffs - 10-1 in '95 and 10-2 in '00-NHL record for most home wins in the playoffs - 12-1 in '03

Make-up call??? Make-up for what?! The Italian red card was deserved, hell McBride bled profusely and had to be taken off for a few minutes. The US red card was disgusting. Yellow yes but definitely not red. Franz Beckenbauer is right, the refs are handing out cards the way doctors hand out pieces of lollipop to kids.

This has been a really physical game though, guess the US player's allusion to war wasn't too far off I can't complain about anything the US did in the first half except can we cut it with the stupid offside trap PLEASE? That's all a world-class team needs, an easy goal Hell Costa Rica scored twice on Germany because of the lame offside trap.

Oh and I don't want to hear about playing for a tie either, a tie isn't going to do anything with the US's terrible goal differential, they need a win. And not only that but a win would put the US in control of its own destiny against Ghana anyway.

Confused by the bold statement here. Didn't the US guy get the red because that was his second yellow and therefore an automatic red? As with the second red.....or did I miss something?

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